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In the press release below, NCPA highlights a recent analysis illustrating PBMs’ enormous profits at the expense of pharmacies and patients.

Asking Virginia Pharmacists to please email and call your respective State Senators and Delegates and urge them to vote IN FAVOR of companion bills, HB 1506 and SB 1026. These two bills relate to the prescriptive authority of pharmacists under statewide protocols for critical medications including antibiotics, Tamiflu and hormonal contraceptives.

NCPA cheered the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear an Arkansas case to decide whether ERISA preempts (supersedes) a state law that regulates pharmacy benefit managers — massive corporate middlemen who have operated in a regulatory no-man's land for decades.

A Joint Special Committee on Access to Quality Health Care and Insurance convened in Atlanta on January 7th to hear testimony from pharmacists, patients and physicians across the state of Georgia on how pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) present challenging barriers for patients to gain access to needed medications.

Ohio officials have expressed they are not hearing from pharmacists – have a voice! View our Ohio Medicaid Reimbursement document to access talking points and resources for contacting your Ohio legislators to inform them about the importance of fair Medicaid reimbursement.